Visits from space aliens

You may not have noticed, on account of doing something far more engrossing, like de-fluffing your navel, but last week Scotland was ‘graced’ – I use the term advisedly – by a visit from Russell Findlay’s boss Kemi Badenoch, a woman who makes the notoriously ill-tempered and uptight deputy leader of…

Mapping the British Media

The media in Britain is “a raging furnace of right-wing provocation, spitting out lies, fear and spite, shaping a political culture of miserliness and insularity”.  We’ve been bringing you daily coverage of Scottish and UK politics for eighteen years. We publish writing on Arts and Culture (with a ton of music, reviews, poetry and film). We publish […] Source

War and Broken Britain

The broken nature of Britain and British politics continues to unfold as large groups of people operate in mutual incomprehension. Talk of conscription is being openly discussed by some – even as the memory of the polls suggests collapsing belief in the very idea of Britain fades (Gen Z and the Death of Britain). A […] Source